Betting prediction and preview: Al Hilal fancied to be better team when visiting Al Faisaly

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Competition: Saudi Arabia Pro League
Competition: Mon 25.January
Match begins: 15:15 (UTC)
Venue: Al Faisali Club Stadium

Struggling Al Faisaly will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Al Hilal in the upcoming league round. It’s 12th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Al Faisaly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Hilal has the fewest conceded goals (8) in Pro League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Al Hilal have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 4-3-0 (win-draw-loss) from seven matches.

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Al Faisaly form and stats

Al Faisaly's struggle is real here at Al Faisali Club Stadium with only 6 points collected from 6 Pro League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-2.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Al Quadisiya that ended 2-2.

Al Faisaly are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 6 games. Al Faisaly have conceded 11 from these games.

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Al Hilal form and stats

Al Hilal, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Pro League, have an excellent away record in the Pro League so far with 3-3-0 from 6 games. Two points from the last two away games for Hilal, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Al Hilal have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Abdullah Ibrahim Al Maiouf. It's been 209 minutes since they last conceded in Pro League.

A 0-0 draw at Al Ahli's stadium before that.

Hilal has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 6 games. It's not easy to score on Hilal as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: zero - four - six (Faisaly wins - draws - Al Hilal wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

FaisalyJ. Tavares
J. Tavares
7 goals
Al HilalB. Gomis
B. Gomis
7 goals
Al FaisalyG. Vieira dos Santos
G. Vieira dos Santos
3 goals

Al Faisaly missing players

Al Hilal missing players

Al Faisaly Al Hilal
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 2 6 14
3 1 0 Won W 1 3 8
6 3 1 Drew D 1 3 5
5 2 0 Lost L 0 0 1
17 8 1 Scored S 3 9 22
20 11 1 Conceded C 2 4 8
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 93%
86% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 79%
50% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 29%
21% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 14%
14% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
71% 83% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 43%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 57%
21% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 7%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.3 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.9 5.7 10 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.2 8.3
3.5 3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4.7 4.9
35% 44% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 32% 32%
Key stats in Pro League this season:
  • Al Faisaly have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Al Faisaly have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Al Faisaly haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Al Hilal has the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the fewest conceded goals (8) in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the most clean sheets (3) away in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the most clean sheets (8) in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the most matches under the total-line (9) in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the the best goal difference (+14) in Pro League
  • Al Hilal has the the best goal difference (+5) away in Pro League
  • Al Hilal have not yet lost a game away.
  • Al Hilal have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Al Hilal have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • All of Al Faisaly's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Al Hilal 14 8 5 1 22 8 8 5 2 1 13 4 6 3 3 0 9 4 14 29
2 Al Shabab 14 7 5 2 23 17 7 5 2 0 11 5 7 2 3 2 12 12 6 26
3 Al Ahli 14 8 2 4 22 20 7 4 2 1 9 6 7 4 0 3 13 14 2 26
4 Al Ittihad 14 6 6 2 17 12 7 3 2 2 6 4 7 3 4 0 11 8 5 24
5 Al Taawon 14 5 6 3 15 9 6 3 3 0 8 2 8 2 3 3 7 7 6 21
6 Al Ittifaq 14 6 3 5 23 23 6 2 1 3 8 12 8 4 2 2 15 11 0 21
7 Al Nassr 14 6 2 6 22 19 7 3 2 2 14 9 7 3 0 4 8 10 3 20
8 Al Wahda 14 6 2 6 17 18 7 3 1 3 11 11 7 3 1 3 6 7 -1 20
9 Abha 14 6 2 6 17 19 6 3 2 1 7 5 8 3 0 5 10 14 -2 20
10 Al Quadisiya 14 5 4 5 20 21 8 4 2 2 13 11 6 1 2 3 7 10 -1 19
11 Al Fateh 14 5 3 6 22 23 6 1 1 4 9 14 8 4 2 2 13 9 -1 18
12 Al Faisaly 14 3 6 5 17 20 6 1 3 2 8 11 8 2 3 3 9 9 -3 15
13 Al Batin 14 3 4 7 19 23 7 2 2 3 10 9 7 1 2 4 9 14 -4 13
14 Al Raed 14 3 4 7 16 21 8 1 2 5 9 14 6 2 2 2 7 7 -5 13
15 Dhamk 14 3 3 8 17 24 8 3 2 3 11 11 6 0 1 5 6 13 -7 12
16 Al-Ain 14 3 1 10 16 28 8 2 0 6 11 19 6 1 1 4 5 9 -12 10